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Re: Customizing printf

From Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des@des.no>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c, comp.std.c
Subject Re: Customizing printf
Date 2011-11-20 20:38 +0100
Message-ID <861ut2mvoa.fsf@ds4.des.no> (permalink)
References (1 earlier) <87vcql1cl1.fsf@blp.benpfaff.org> <jab5gl$b6p$1@reader1.panix.com> <87ipmehbxl.fsf@blp.benpfaff.org> <jabiqs$cbr$1@oravannahka.helsinki.fi> <87aa7qhawm.fsf@blp.benpfaff.org>

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blp@cs.stanford.edu (Ben Pfaff) writes:
> Lauri Alanko <la@iki.fi> writes:
> > http://search.cpan.org/dist/Locale-Maketext/lib/Locale/Maketext/TPJ13.pod
> Whoever wrote that page did not read the GNU gettext manual,
> which explains the same problems and shows the solutions to them.

I believe gettext only supports one number per string, so it cannot
handle the "%d files in %d directories" example.  You'd have to rewrite
it as "I scanned %d directories." + "I found %d files." or something
similar.

DES
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des@des.no

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Customizing printf jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2011-11-15 14:36 +0100
  Re: Customizing printf "Joel C. Salomon" <joelcsalomon@gmail.com> - 2011-11-15 13:07 -0500
  Re: Customizing printf Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu> - 2011-11-15 10:10 -0800
    Re: Customizing printf jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2011-11-15 21:36 +0100
      Re: Customizing printf blp@cs.stanford.edu (Ben Pfaff) - 2011-11-15 12:51 -0800
        Re: Customizing printf "Joel C. Salomon" <joelcsalomon@gmail.com> - 2011-11-15 18:03 -0500
    Re: Customizing printf jgk@panix.com (Joe keane) - 2011-11-20 15:14 +0000
      Re: Customizing printf blp@cs.stanford.edu (Ben Pfaff) - 2011-11-20 10:43 -0800
        Re: Customizing printf Lauri Alanko <la@iki.fi> - 2011-11-20 19:01 +0000
          Re: Customizing printf blp@cs.stanford.edu (Ben Pfaff) - 2011-11-20 11:05 -0800
            Re: Customizing printf Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des@des.no> - 2011-11-20 20:38 +0100
              Re: Customizing printf blp@cs.stanford.edu (Ben Pfaff) - 2011-11-20 11:37 -0800
        Re: Customizing printf jgk@panix.com (Joe keane) - 2011-11-21 22:23 +0000
          Re: Customizing printf Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-11-22 11:26 +1300
          Re: Customizing printf blp@cs.stanford.edu (Ben Pfaff) - 2011-11-21 14:23 -0800
          Re: Customizing printf Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2011-11-21 23:06 +0000
            Re: Customizing printf jgk@panix.com (Joe keane) - 2011-11-23 00:09 +0000
              Re: Customizing printf blp@cs.stanford.edu (Ben Pfaff) - 2011-11-22 16:16 -0800
      Re: Customizing printf Nick Keighley <nick_keighley_nospam@hotmail.com> - 2011-11-21 05:29 -0800
        Re: Customizing printf jgk@panix.com (Joe keane) - 2011-11-21 22:50 +0000
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    Re: Customizing printf Seebs <usenet-nospam@seebs.net> - 2011-11-16 20:18 +0000
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